A 19-year-old girl in Okaloosa County was arrested for popping open a Steel Reserve beer in the back of an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s cruiser. The teenager was getting a ride to her Fort Walton Beach home after her friend was arrested for a DUI when she decided she wasn’t done drinking for the night.
According to a report on the website TheSmokingGun.com, Tasha Lee Cantrell was the passenger in the car belonging to the person arrested for drunk driving. While her friend’s car was being impounded, Cantrell asked Sheriff’s Deputy Mitchell Landis for a ride home. He agreed. During the trip to her Fort Walton home he heard the teen open a can and then saw her drinking from it. He investigated and found that the can was Steel Reserve and then headed to the sheriff’s office to charge the girl with underage drinking.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Tampa Cocaine Arrest Begins With Routine Traffic Stop For No Headlights
A Tampa woman was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine after her son was pulled over for driving without his headlights on. During what is being described as a routine traffic stop, police discovered that 19-year-old Marcell L. Jones was driving without a license. He was issued a traffic ticket for that offense.
During the stop, police claim to have smelled marijuana and that lead to a search of the 19-year-old’s passenger, who just happened to be his mother. During that search police say they found 17 grams of coke in several small bags. She was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia as well and held in lieu of $12,000 bail.
Texting And Driving Ban For Interstate Bus And Truck Drivers Proposed In Washington
I think everyone knows it is just a matter of time before all texting and driving is outlawed across the U.S. Florida is examining a law to ban the practice as have many other states who issue traffic citations to distracted drivers. These traffic tickets can be especially costly to those drivers who make their living behind the wheel.
The federal government has proposed a ban on all text messaging by interstate truckers and bus drivers while behind the wheel. Issuing traffic tickets for commercial drivers can be a powerful punishment for men and women whose job is dependent on a clean driving record. The biggest debate on the issue has centered on how the ban would be enforced. In Florida traffic tickets for texting and driving would be a secondary violation.